Remember when Samsung started showing off their Samsung i780 Windows Mobile smartphone? Remember how the mobile world was split on whether that optical trackpad/mouse was a good fit with the touchscreen handset? Right, well Samsung has finally gone live with the first smartphone to feature a built-in...
Nokia’s road to establishing an open-source Symbian Foundation has just been cemented with Samsung’s reported acceptance of Nokia’s offer to buy-out Samsung’s shares in Symbian. Samsung is the last remaining share-holder in Symbian that stands between Nokia and their Symbian Foundation...
Nokia's announcement that they'll be buying-out the rest of Symbian in order to seed the Symbian Foundation might have Google worried about some serious open-source competition to their upcoming Android mobile platform. But, it looks like Google's going to have a few years to refine their...
With news that Google's Android-push will take just a bit longer than we would prefer, it's fitting that Nokia has just announced that it will be working to bring together the fragmented Symbian environment under a single, open-source umbrella. Nokia has been working closely with Symbian for...
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The Samsung SGH-L870 was unveiled, and then announced, as Samsung's first smartphone in their Soul lineup. The super-thin slider is powered by S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 2 running on top of Symbian v9.3. And, at just 13.5mm thick, the Samsung L870 once again proves that Samsung knows how to pack...
A week ago we posted more details about the upcoming Samsung L870 smarpthone. Now we have even more information as the Korean giant officially unveiled the device at S60 Summit in Barcelona, Spain. The official specs go like this: Network: HSDPA (2100MHz) 3.6Mbps, plus tri-band (900/1800/1900) EDGE/GPRS...
There's just something about having a handset with dual SIM card slots that's so cool. It lets you rock multiple (well, two, really) carriers in a single handset. If for some reason you use different carriers and find your pockets weighed down with two different handsets, Samsung's got...
Samsung’s finally gotten around to announcing the Samsung SGH-i550 S60-based GPS phone. We first spotted this trackball-sporting S60 smartphone back at IFA 2007 , and it’s just now getting its time in the spotlight. The Samsung i550 will be rocking the S60 3.1 UI. And, as expected , Samsung...
Samsung sure does love them some sliders. It seems every other phone coming out of the South Korean manufacturer’s factories are in slider form-factor. The recently leaked pics and deets of the Samsung SGH-i570 show a slider-phone with a full QWERTY keyboard hidden under a svelte and sleek 96×90x16mm...
Samsung is really going at it these days. New devices are being launched every day , it seems. The latest mobile phone from Samsung seems to be taking some advantage of the company’s newly minted relationship with Ericsson - the Samsung i550 looks to be taking design cues from Sony Ericsson. With...